Too many authentication failures for server when using pass

[iansane]

Hi,

I'm getting the error msg "Too many authentication failures for servername" which I have read is caused by filezilla reading and trying my ssh keys. But I am using a username/password login for this connection. I don't want filezilla trying to use ssh keys when I'm using a username/password for login.

I have set up ssh for terminal ssh to specific servers but for my shared hosting servers I need to continue to use filezilla with a login as I've always done.

So my question is, how to I stop filezilla from trying to use ssh keys? I've seen reference to SSH_AUTH_SOCK="" but have no idea where to set that permanently and if I do set that permanently won't it stop my terminal ssh connections from working?

Thank you

[iansane]

I figured out how to change SSH_AUTH_SOCK in my filezilla shortcut on Ubuntu.

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env SSH_AUTH_SOCK="" /opt/FileZilla3/bin/filezilla

The good thing is, this is only setting the env variable for this session so I can simultaneously use terminal to open a ssh connection to another server using my ssh keys.

But when setting up ssh keys on my windows client I will have to figure out how to do the same thing with windows shortcuts.

I think the proper fix would be for filezilla to ignore ssh keys if I enter a username and password. With the fix above, if I add a server in the future for which I actually do use the ssh keys in filezilla I will have to go and make two different shortcut icons "filezillaKeyAuth" and "filezillaPWAuth" or something like that.

[iansane]

Any news on fixing this issue in filezilla? I've seen a few bug reports and forum posts referring to the same issue but didn't see any resolution besides the work around I used.

[botg]

No solution yet.